Tuesday, 8 September 2015

TOAST AND TWO EAGLES

There is a reference to white headed birds in the spoken word track REMEMBERING MR TOAST And although at the time of writing I had avoided describing them as bald headed eagles I did know what they were and was aware that they alighted on places other than the highest treesI now have some recent photographic proof of two of those 'other places'

Eagle having a paddle

Eagle on a telegraph pole

The words from the track which can be heard on Bandcamp belong on Haida Gwaii - which was the birth place of Mr Toast - and they belong particularly to the stretch of road heading south from Masset as it approaches the former Bottle and Jug Works, a Pottery in Tlell

There
was rain all around outside

The
car moved through it like a dream machine

A
strong wind tore at the sea

And
a memory of you

Tore
into the heart of me

And
with it came the kind of tears

That
feel sore behind your eyes

That
you need to cry out until the last one’s gone

That
you need to cry out to move on

And
I thought I’d let you go

I
thought I’d reached a dried-up place

Like
a desert in which life’s old past hurts

Would
fade and be erased

Then
the rain had ceased

And
white-headed birds

Re-alighted
on the highest trees

The
sea had been covered with a sheet of silver foil

And
the memory of you became a song for me

And
the road was more like a river than a road

It
was more like a river than a road

The last line of the words also provided the title for the EP MORE LIKE A RIVER THAN ROAD And REMEMBERING MR TOAST is the second last track on the EP